Guess the Place

[johnfilmer]

More mainstream than that JW.


Clue, look at the road name far right.

[John Walker]

A tramway related to one of the Faversham gunpowder works?

[johnfilmer]

Sandwich is waaaay too far

[MartinR]

As far as Sandwich?

[johnfilmer]

Further east.

[John Walker]

I've not found it but should we be looking in the Gravesend area?  I have a feeling there's a tramway somewhere near there.

[johnfilmer]

Well that was a shot in the dark, it being the only heavily timbered sizeable building that I could think of.
We went there once, at a time of business stresses my wife thought a nice day out would be great. It was shut!
Back to a map this time, its a OS 25inch, 1909 from nls maps. Interesting tramway, but where?

[CAT]

It is indeed the heavily timber 'East' side of Ightham Mote, which despite this pic being nearly 120 years old has remained virtually unaltered, even following its multi million pound restoration and refurbishment. To the untrained eye this elevation may just look as being medieval, but it encapsulate several hundred years of construction and repair.


Over to you johnfilmer

[MartinR]

As far as I can judge, the camera position must have been at:

• Nat Grid:       TQ 58511 53515
• Post Code:   TN15 0NT
• WGS84:        51°15'32"N 000°16'13"E or 51.2587652,0.270305

[johnfilmer]

Heavily timbered exterior, Ightam Mote?

[CAT]

Some very interesting film of the bomb trials off the coast of Reculver can be seen online. Amazing how it ever managed to do what it did. Certainly Barnes Wallis was a thinker 'outside of the box'.


Here is my next, which might not take too long as its a popular place to visit. 

[John Walker]

I believe that is the concrete filling for the dummy bomb.  The steel casing has long gone to the great rust god in the sky  .

There's a statue by The Downs in Herne Bay to the great inventor - Sir Barnes Neville Wallis CBE FRS RDI FRAeS (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979)

[grandarog]

You have it Cat .Found by a chap and his lad bait digging at low tide off Reculver.
Over to you.

[CAT]

Is this one of the dummy, or practice 'bouncing bombs' recovered from the sea near Reculver?

[MartinR]

Would Oysters be involved?